December 4, 2024
Nobody Knows Anything (Still)
Some thoughts on AI at the end of 2024—and one great link about the beauty of non-AI tech.
Paul Ford
One of the world’s leading technology thinkers, Paul Ford has written about the way that software works for dozens of publications like Wired, Businessweek, and the New York Times. He co-founded Aboard with Rich Ziade.
November 27, 2024
A Few Quick AI Links Before Thanksgiving
Teaching robots, brutalist architecture, saving squirrels, and more.
November 20, 2024
AI Links, Now With Commentary
AI and the career ladder, big tech’s training data struggles, and more.
November 13, 2024
Crunching the AI Numbers
The computer gives us information we can process and use—and then we decide what gets written down.
October 30, 2024
A Comforting Software Mess
Claude’s new “computer use” feature is reassuringly janky—you can see all the pieces clanking noisily along.